AWS Directory Service provides multiple ways to set up and run Amazon Cloud Directory, Amazon Cognito, and Microsoft AD with other AWS services. Amazon Cloud Directory provides a highly scalable directory store for your application’s multihierarchical data. Amazon Cognito helps you create a directory store that authenticates your users either through your own user pools or through federated identity providers. AWS Directory Service for Microsoft Active Directory (Enterprise Edition), also known as Microsoft AD, enables your directory-aware workloads and AWS resources to use a managed Active Directory in the AWS Cloud.

Choose from any of the following directories:

Amazon Cloud Directory

With Cloud Directory, you can organize application data into multiple hierarchies to support many organizational pivots and relationships across directory information.